Man vs. Dog

One can easily find a Chai Wala as well as a Pan Wala at the gate of any college, my college is no exception. One day when I was standing there with a few of my friends, I saw something; a small kid of the age of around 7 yrs came close to a guy and started asking for a cup of tea; that guy very rudely said “Get lost or I’ll bash u.” with fear on his face and tears in his eyes that kid very slowly moved away, after a while one dog came close to the same guy and started creating various kind of sounds as if he was asking for something from him; the guy than went to the tea shop, bought a packet of biscuit and started feeding him.

The similar kind of situation exits everywhere in our society, we can provide chapatti to cow but when someone really starving comes to us and ask for food we says ‘Get away, we don’t have anything.’ Many a times you can find kids fighting for food which they have collected from the garbage, it’s the same food that we throw away because no one from our family wants to eat it; and we instead of giving it to someone throw it into the dustbin. There are many countries in the world where people are suffering with malnutrition; in our own country more than 20% of people eat just one time in a day, and many a times they don’t even get anything to eat. There also exists the other side of the coin in which people tell the cook to prepare something and then with the ring of the phone they say throw it I am going in a party. Few times it happens that we find something very delicious and take a huge serving of it on our plate, but after eating a small portion we says ‘yar my tummy is full, I can’t eat more now.’ After that, food becomes of no use and we simply throw it away. Now a question arises, is it really necessary to waste the food, that too at the time when so many people are not getting anything to eat, when farmers are committing suicide because there farms are crop less? Can’t we take a sufficient amount which we can really eat? Can’t we make our plans in advance to diminish the problem? And if we can’t do all this than can’t we give the food which is left, to the people who really need it? Of course, we can do it; but than we need to change our habits, we need to change our thinking. If we can give food to an animal than we can also provide food to a man, we need to understand that humans are not beneath animals, they also have the right to eat. I am not asking you to stop feeding animals or to entertain hungry people with money; I am simply asking, not to waste the food and to feed the people with the food that we can not consume. If something is left in the kitchen after fulfilling your requirement then please give it to someone who is starving, try to understand that it is always better to feed someone than to create a bunch of garbage.

Think Once...

It was a fine morning, quite a normal one; everyone was busy with their daily schedule; suddenly I got a call from one of my friends and he said “Hey, do you know yesterday a blast took place in Pune” I was shocked when he said this to me; I replied “No, when did it happen?” “Yesterday, in German bakery, at about 7 30 pm” he answered. I very quickly took a summary of the news from him and said “Yar will call you back, ok” after that I called all my friends who were in pune; they all were safe. So I thanked God once and resumed my daily business.

This is what normally happens with all of us, if something happens somewhere we very quickly try to know whether the people who are related to our life are safe; and if we get to know that they are safe, we say thank you God and then we forget the matter, as if nothing has happened which was unnatural. Now just think once that someone who was close to our heart gets seriously injured in such a case, and then what will be our reaction. ‘We’ll be full of anger, will directly go to the media, will ask the cops as well as government that what all they are trying to do in order to arrest the culprits, was the government not having the information of any such activity from the people of intelligence, and if they were having such information then why didn’t they try to share it with the people.’ If this much we could not have done than definitely would have done as much as we could, that too in the case when someone very close to our heart is suffering, at the time when our mind has stopped working and we have become hopeless, when not only eyes but heart is also crying with the same intensity; at that point of time also if we can try to do whatever we can, then why we are quiet, are we waiting for the time when some part of our own blood gets injured, or are we waiting for the next calamity to take place? We have to wake up, we have to think, and we have to give our hands to the people who have suffered. Their mind may not be in the condition to work properly, but ours is; then why are not we using it. It’s the time when we need to stand up, to prove that it’s not just the matter of one person but it’s about the whole country, it’s about humanity. And if we are thinking that what we can do then at least we can use the power which our constitution has given to us, the power to speak our mind. Don’t do it for your country, for humanity but do it for yourself. Always remember if we are together no one can break us, no one can harm us.